Kwesé collaborates with Kalakoda Boxing Promotions to bring the Friday Fight Nights series dubbed, Chaos in Lagos, to Nigeria on October 26. The much-anticipated rematch between Chomunorwa ‘Sting’ Gondarenda and Tony ‘Sugar’ Salam for Gondarenda’s WBF Africa Cruiserweight title will take place at the Federal Palace Hotel in Victoria Island, Chaos in Lagos. With Kwesé’s [...]
4KUNIVERSE, a 4K, high dynamic range (HDR) general entertainment channel, will soon be available in Europe, the Middle East and Africa after bagging a deal with Eutelsat. The channel will be introduced on Eutelsat’s Hotbird video neighbourhood on November 1 and will be reaching cable and IPTV networks. 4KUNIVERSE will beam original TV series, movies, [...]
Vodafone Ghana has inked a deal with multiplatform broadcaster Kwesé, to provide the video-on-demand and live TV content to Ghana through the broadcaster’s video streaming service Kwesé Play. This collaboration will allow Ghanaians to connect a Kwese Play digital TV device to Vodafone’s high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) or ADSL broadband service to access unlimited live TV [...]
DStv inks deal with music app Joox to offer a new package. The Joox VIP family package is free of charge for DStv subscribers and up to five family members. The Chief Commercial Officer of Tencent Africa, Thabiet Allie, declared, “Unparalleled on-demand entertainment for all the family in the palm of your hand. The new [...]
Vewd and iflix, the entertainment service for emerging markets, have collaborated to make iflix accessible on millions of Vewd enabled devices. With more than 15 million subscribers across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, smart TV manufacturers and pay TV operators consider iflix a necessity in their app catalogue. iflix partnered with the Vewd [...]
Netflix will be available in UAE through mobile operators du and Virgin Mobile after an agreement has been settled. Netflix’s subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) content will be available across the operators’ TV and mobile services in the beginning this month. The chief digital lifestyle and innovation officer of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC) the parent organisation [...]
SABC1 TV show, Uzalo has broken all records in the history of television viewing in South Africa with the second episode of its recent two-parter wedding storyline that reached 10.2 million viewers. Uzalo is produced by Stained Glass Pictures and has been South Africa’s most watched TV show and the number one show on SABC1. The show [...]
Nahoo Television launched the nation’s first shopping channel ‘Mazesha Zone’, exclusively dedicated to commercials, presentations and demonstrations of products. The broadcaster has already set up warehouses, delivery systems, e-payment mechanisms and credit schemes to facilitate the operations of the satellite channel. The station will start by advertising about 100 consumer goods and products, with the [...]
Tennis Channel and the WTA have inked a five-year agreement that will make the WTA available live on Tennis Channel live, over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms as from January 2019. The collaboration includes Premier and International competitions as well as the WTA Finals—representing more than 2,000 matches each season. The agreement allows Tennis Channel live, over-the-top (OTT) streaming [...]
Spotify, the world leader in music streaming, announced the launch of Afro Hub, a section dedicated to music from the African continent. This action was implemented as part of Global Cultures, a Spotify initiative to promote music from traditionally neglected cultural backgrounds. In a communication, Spotify announced, “Afro Hub celebrates and honors African culture and [...]
